COTTIP J5. 
583 
rays 12 in number ; anal fin with 9 rays, arising slightly behind 
origin of posterior dorsal. 
Form. 4" Loe. Upper Miocene : Oeningen, Baden. (?) Lower 
Miocene : Eibiswald, Styria. 
42779. Type specimen of so-called Poecilia oeningensis in counter- 
part, described by A. S. Woodward, loc. cil. 
Van Breda Coll. 
42778, 42780-81. Three good specimens, the first being in counter- 
part, noticed by A. S. Woodward, loc. cit. 
Van Breda Coll. 
P- 1972, P. 4533. Imperfect small specimens labelled by Agassiz, 
and described by him, tom. cit. p. 186. 
Egerton Sf Enniskillen Colls. 
35529,36119. Three imperfect small specimens. Purchased, 1859 . 
42802. Imperfect small specimen, in counterpart. Van Breda Coll. 
The following specimen seems to be the caudal region of a large 
scaly Cottoid, and it may possibly represent a gigantic individual of 
Bepidocottus brevis : — 
P. 3871. Type spocimen of Cyclurus minor, Agassiz, described and 
figured in Poiss. Foss. vol. v. pt. ii. (1839), p. 45, pi. liii. 
fig. 1 ; Uppor Miocene, Oeningen. The median fins are 
distorted by crushing, and the articulations of the rays 
seem to he closer together than in the normal small 
specimens of L. brevis. Enniskillen Coll. 
Lepidocottus papyraceus (Agassiz). 
1832. Cottus papyraceus, L. Agassiz, Neues Jahrb. p. 137. 
1839. Cottus papyraceus, L. Agassiz, Poiss. Foss. voL iv. p. 187, 
pi. xxxii. fig. 1. 
1875. Lepidocottus papyraceus, II. E. Sauvage, Bull. Soc. G6ol. France, 
[3] voL iii. p. 637. 
Type. Imperfect fish ; olim Bronn Coll., Heidelberg. 
A stouter species than the preceding, attaining a length of about 
0-07. Vertebra 8 in the abdominal, 18 in the caudal region. 
Dorsal spines 6, articulated rays 10 in number; anal fin with 
9 ray 8. 
Form. Loc. Upper Oligocene : Monte Viale, near Vicenza. Also 
recorded by Agassiz from Upper Miocene of Sinigaglia and Melilli. 
